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humanino
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This is a well-known logical problem. But I can't figure out where it comes from, because it seems really old. I love it.
This is what happening when one dies : one gets in a room with two doors. Each door is kept by a guard. One of the doors leads to Heaven, the other one leads to Hell. One of the guard always tell the truth, the other always lies. There is no correlation between lying/telling-the-truth and keeping the door to Heaven/Hell.
You are allowed to ask only one question to only one guy. You wish to go to heaven. You can manage to find a yes/no question.
Hint : you have no hope to determine which one tells the truth. Notice that it does not matter wether you've been a bad guy or a good guy. Von Neumman certainly managed to go to Heaven, even though he was a horrible human being
This is what happening when one dies : one gets in a room with two doors. Each door is kept by a guard. One of the doors leads to Heaven, the other one leads to Hell. One of the guard always tell the truth, the other always lies. There is no correlation between lying/telling-the-truth and keeping the door to Heaven/Hell.
You are allowed to ask only one question to only one guy. You wish to go to heaven. You can manage to find a yes/no question.
Hint : you have no hope to determine which one tells the truth. Notice that it does not matter wether you've been a bad guy or a good guy. Von Neumman certainly managed to go to Heaven, even though he was a horrible human being